Job Title: Job ID: Snr Community-Based Protection Assistant ( Under UNOPS)
24603
Location: Kigali, Rwanda
Salary Grade: Hardship Level: A
Family Location Type: Family
Eligible Applicants
This position is advertised open to internal and external applicants.
Procedures and Eligibility
Interested applicants should consult the Administrative Instruction on Recruitment and Assignment of Locally Recruited Staff (RALS).
Duties and Qualifications
Duties
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Assist functional units, the Multi-Functional Team (MFT) and senior management to integrate participatory and community-based approaches in the overall protection strategy.
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Through relationships with PoC and network of partners, stay abreast of political, social, economic and cultural developments that have an impact on the protection environment and provide advice to the protection team. Understand the perspectives, capacities, needs and resources of the PoC and advise the protection team accordingly, highlighting the specific protection needs of women and men, children, youth and older persons, persons with disabilities, marginalized groups.
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Assist in initiatives with host communities to involve national civil society groups in the protection of PoC.
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Support implementing and operational partners as well as displaced and local communities to develop community-owned activities to address, where applicable, the social, educational, psycho-social, cultural, health, organisational and livelihood concerns as well as child protection and prevention and response to SGBV.
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Assist in the analysis that identifies the capacities of communities of concern and risks they face.
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Support participatory assessments by multifunctional teams and ongoing consultation with PoC.
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Support efforts to build the office capacity for community-based protection.
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Support communities in establishing representation and coordination structures.
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Ensure community understanding of UNHCR's commitment to deliver on accountability and quality assurance in its response.
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Collect data for monitoring of programmes and budgets from an AGD perspective.
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Draft and type routine correspondence, documents and reports and maintain up-to-date filing systems.
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Act as an interpreter in exchange of routine information, contribute to related liaison activities and respond directly to routine queries.
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Assist in the enforcement of participatory AGD sensitive analysis as an essential basis for all of UNHCR's work.
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Initiate AGD sensitive interventions at the appropriate level on community-based protection issues and to respond to protection concerns and incidents within the office and with persons and communities of concern based on agreed parameters.
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Identify and recommend which individuals or groups to prioritize for counselling and field visits based on agreed criteria.
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Enforce compliance of implementing partners with global protection policies and standards of professional integrity in the delivery of protection services.
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Perform other related duties as required.
Minimum Qualifications
Education & Professional Work Experience
Years of Experience / Degree Level
For G5- 2 years relevant experience with High School Diploma; or 1 year relevant work experience with Bachelor or equivalent or higher
Field(s) of Education
Not applicable
Certificates and/or Licenses
Development, Human Rights, International Law
Social Work, Social Science, Political Science,
(Certificates and Licenses marked with an asterisk
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are essential)
Relevant Job Experience
Essential
Not specified
Desirable
UNHCR learning programmes (PLP).
Knowledge of MSRP.
Functional Skills
*IT-MS Office Applications
*IT-Computer Literacy
IT-Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
UN-UN/UNHCR Administrative Rules, Regulations and Procedures
UN-UN/UNHCR Financial Rules and Regulations and Procedures
PR-Community-based Protection
PR-Community-based Protection - Principles and methodologies
CL-Multi-stakeholder Communications with Partners, Government & Community
Position Competencies
Competencies as defined in Job Profile
Language Requirements
Knowledge of English and/or UN working language of the duty station if not English.
See below for this postion's Operational Context
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